Polly's Chocolate Chip Cookies are a fairly standard shortening-based cookie, but I was a little nervous for Susie when I realized that she was only including one bag of chocolate chips to 4.5 cups flour. If this tournament has taught me anything, it is that my coworkers are voracious chocolatevores (which is what I assume is what you call someone whose diet mostly consists of chocolate). The cookies were easy to mix, but called for baking for 16-18 minutes, which seemed like a very long time given that the recipe yielded a ton of cookies. I had a test cookie at the 16 minute mark on the first pan. It was crispier than I like my cookies (not a hard mark to reach since I like them on the raw side), and tasted sort of bland to me. I want back to the recipe and mentally went over the ingredients I had added - everything was correct. My husband tasted one and basically called me a crazy person - the cookies were fine, just not the over-sweet kind. I continued with the recipe, working hard not to try to "fix" it, since that would be against the rules. I would have loved to stir in a bit more sugar, or roll the balls in it, or generally make it much more unhealthy. Also, I would have baked it for a shorter amount of time. But, I gritted my teeth and followed the recipe.
During the end of baking Susie's Polly's Chocolate Chip Cookies (how does Susie know this Polly, I wonder?), I mixed up a double batch of Navika's Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. Readers will note that we encountered a Navika cookie recipe earlier this year (Brownie Cookies), and that I found them a little crispier than I tend to like, but very chocolatey and delicious. This was a fairly standard oatmeal cookie recipe until it called for 2 cups of semisweet chocolate chips per 24 cookie batch. That's right, I added 4 cups of chocolate chips to about 4 cups of dry ingredients. To recap: Polly's Chocolate Chip Cookies contain 1 bag (approximately 2 cups) chips to 4.5 cups of just flour, and Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies contain 4 cups chips to about 4 cups of dry ingredients. Clearly Navika loves chocolate! There were times when I was rolling the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie dough balls for baking when I wondered how a cookie could possibly bake when it was mostly chocolate chips. Somehow, these things managed to form cookies, and they were delicious!
Susie's Polly's Chocolate Chip Cookies were labeled as Cookie A (on the left in the picture below) and Navika's Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies were labeled as Cookie B (on the right - oddly, you can barely see the chips in this photo).
People generally liked Polly's Chocolate Chip Cookies but they loved the chip-laden Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, which won this match with 14 votes. Polly's Chocolate Chip Cookies received one vote, which I believe was mostly likely from Bob, who commented that it was a great cookie with a cup of coffee. I tried that with some of the overage, and I would say coffee showcases the cookie best. I took some overage to my sister's house this weekend and Polly's Chocolate Chip Cookies were cleared out of the bag first (despite there being more of them) so perhaps they just had the wrong audience for this tournament. But, their loss is Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies' gain, since Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies will be moving on to the semi-finals!
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